"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to
tell people what they do not want to hear."
-George Orwell

Why political cartoons?

Political cartooning is the art of blending text, visuals, and information on current events into something that can make a viewer pause and think about the issues for a moment before punching the newspaper and/or screen in a fit of rage. Politics isn't just something that happens among small circles of powerful individuals, and I strongly believe that a good political cartoon is more than just a funny caricature of some world leader; it's a way to cut through the layers of bullshit and send a clear, provocative message to whoever needs it most. If it doesn't make anyone uncomfortable, then why bother?

Who am I?

Art and politics have been my passions ever since I was a little kid who probably should have been busy making friends or something. No matter where I go in life, I always seem to end up back at the drawing desk. My cartoons currently reside in a little blog called 9mm Ballpoint and show up on Deviantart a few days later. They've been published and shared in America, South Korea, and Syrian Kurdistan (yeah, that last one caught me off guard too), to name a few, so at least someone out there must think they're pretty good. I usually draw from a radical Left-wing perspective...

...but my own "side" shouldn't get a free pass when it does something stupid. So there are often times when the only proper thing to do is draw something like these:

How does Patreon work?

Patreon is a crowdfunding platform that provides a cool new way to keep artists from starving to death. It's like a long-term Kickstarter: you pledge to pay a certain amount of money per month, and your pledges will (hopefully) turn this project into something professional, or at the very least, help pay for the art supplies and staggering amounts of coffee that make cartooning possible.

I don't have a bunch of fancy rewards to offer (yet), but if you pledge $1 per month, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that you've helped to bring more political controversy into a world that clearly doesn't have enough. Pledge $3 or more per month and you'll get to see new material early on my Patreon activity feed, before it shows up on 9mm Ballpoint or my old Deviantart page. Even if you don't agree with everything I have to say (in fact, it would be a little weird if you did), it'll still mean lots of interesting new things to argue about!